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this is r.t. you're watching around the pub the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin zero in here in moscow r.t. h.q. tonight first of all what a big story it was the world was wide eyed this last week over those dramatic images from central russia that meteor exploding in a blinding flash plunging forward before crashing into the urals early on friday part of it going into a lake now of course it's more hard to imagine the panic that this cause we have a witness is talking about the blinding flash but of course they're also talking about that intense pressure pump so many eyewitnesses said it was almost as if it was almost as if the pressure waves of was felt within their internal organs really scary because of your inside of the time when those windows blew out well that's part of the reason why really a thousand people were injured article piskun off takes up the story. it was like a scene from a scythe or a movie but with one exception it was real first the brilliant flash this big

bright like he was shining across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun the skies were lit up by a meteor streaking across the skies above the russian city of over want to have thousand kilometers east of moscow we're not just unusual glare on the floor i thought of all lines from a car then we went to the window saw this strange cloud and then and then this. would turn around and the wall was gone like someone had moved it the series of massive explosions rocked the entire city damaging buildings and shattering windows . nasa said the explosive force of the media were breaking up was the equivalent of two one to hear oshima bombs over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from pieces of shattered glass. windows just

exploded i saw one girl he had and a growing his hand we were told to quickly put our clothes on and run out so many were able to film the owner of the phenomenon later flooding the web with footage as rumors spread of what it might have been a stricken airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning of the and of the world would miss as reported seeing fragments of the crashing all across the region. i saw a small can there was a weird smell but it was not a fire so i think it's a piece of meteorite and it's small during them no however most of the sightings turned out to be ordinary peed bug fires because so far officials have not found any fragments of the media or for now the immediate priority. he's to look after the injured and repair the damage to buildings especially the broken windows in schools and residential areas as sand bridger's a married drop below minus fifteen celsius is going to take time to clear

everything outward for now science like this collapsed factory or a clear reminder no matter how advanced technology gets nowadays often when it comes to meter we can only watch helplessly and hope for the best. when you get over the morning you just never know what's going to have his skin off there will of course it is this happened at the pictures that were being flushed around the web always instantly so much chatter as you'd expect going on about it lindsay france is across all that for us lindsay. a lot has been hitting the internet in recent days regarding the media or some from the merely factual all the way to the out right out rageous such as president putin writing the power of the rock all the way to earth i am getting updates on this right now in the newsroom we'll bring you the very latest in the studio just a couple of minutes good stuff. of course one startling alarming. nobody actually saw it coming we always think we've got the telescopes trained on the heavens part of this rock was too small with insight into the earth is

a really good you may wonder why the scientists haven't seen this thing coming after all it was quite a doozy was really large as a matter of fact buzz at the same time the scientists are saying that there's way too many things flying out there in outer space and although this one was a big one they can't really keep track of everything that's coming but seriously this thing waited more than ten thousand tons when it was approaching earth or so the scientists say of course when it entered the atmosphere it mind blowing the speed of thirty kilometers per second that's really really fast when it entered the atmosphere it broke into several pieces and those went scattering all over the region this is the region that we're actually concerned with but it actually went all around the place we're only going with what the scientists and the emergency ministries are saying and they're saying that this icy pits is not anything for is not something for ice fishing as a matter of fact this is a crater where the fragment one of the fragments has fallen but again they haven't

found any fragments of the meteor there so i guess we only have to take their word for it of course we have to understand that this actually has been the biggest thing to hit this planet in over a century or so other scientists believe the last time something like this happened was in one thousand nine hundred eighty two when the your crash landed somewhere inside the area destroying thousands of square kilometers of forest causing acid or . to fall causing me to and plants and forests but it's also one of the biggest mysteries in the universe because nobody has ever found a crater from the meteor or know no fragments of the meteor have been found so this is kind of a big mystery that a lot of people are trying to cash in on this the even even today a hundred years later but back to reality back to present date i've been to a region of course there has been plenty of damage you have seen the pictures of

the damage to plants and buildings but actually a lot of people are saying it could have been a lot worse if history is any indication there are telescopes were. master of us that was cosmos and will sure of your piece those are just the others that are out there trying to detect its record that's true it's but honestly there's a lot of there's hundreds of thousands and their biggest focus is on the really large ones ones that are hundreds of meters in diameter oaklawn others. could actually do to them to the gunnison and another thing to have been screeching is actually something of a nuclear hotspot in russia in fact during the soviet era this was the place for nuclear research so it has at least seven nuclear facilities that are located in the region and a lot of people are saying that if at least one of them was hit with one of the fragments from an asteroid we would have been dealing with complications infinitely

worse than we're having on our hands right now we would be dealing with a nuclear disaster but thankfully that did not happen and although this entire event was rather frightening and quite damaging still things could have been a lot worse and it's a good thing that everything turned out the way it did. really reporting there was to be the same this meteor blast went viral be catching up with lindsay france in just a minute or two to see exactly what came in and as they say it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good there's always somebody willing to cash it isn't there for him and he'll face some even tried selling what they claim to fragments of the crush of media the most expensive was on offer i don't know whether anyone took it up was an offer for ten thousand dollars of course it was going to be an interested . it was tested it was actually a right for me to you could just been sent something for somebody to go for and you'd be very awards to part with your money for the lives of frogs but was one bizarre. do you know did anyone actually spent unfrozen dollars and you know i have

no idea but i would really like to see that sample of rock they spent that kind of money what else have you got for this is pictures just yes the twitter sphere is blowing up with the internet is just chock full of funny outrageous just odd things people are posting with maybe a little too much time on their hands you know all this video is great and wonderful but then you hit twitter and you see posts like this tanks are passing down the streets citizens are urged to get out of the shelters lunchbox handouts power has been arranged only if the end you realized ok this is not really happening this is not the same guy sits there and starts tweeting about what's happening in town saying we're being given chemical protection and gas masks the city is almost entirely evacuated we're setting up barricades and in islam you know we're joking about a lot of know the power of these things and it was a frightening event if you didn't know what was happening at the time if you're reading this it could spread it would startle you and you'll just think why is he why does it have so much time to tweet about all of this happening and then you've got you've got the merely funny stuff the citizens of chile have been skaar already

checking to see which superpowers they have god knows of you know the radiation from the explosion may have caused them to have extra to bring someone to mars what on earth for you come to our local weather reports it's negative seventeen degrees celsius in chelyabinsk there's wind and a slight meteor but it's more clever yeah. i think so ok and then you know who is the guy who you know it's that one liner that happens around valentine's day pluck a star from the sky who is that you know what who promised to pick a star from the sky and valentine's day you're certainly going to tell me that in a team of course and then you've got people from over you know english speaking countries tweeting about breaking news baby found in the middle of a meteorite crash that he's miraculously on her. arms wrapped in what seems to be a red cape and allusion to superman if you get if you get that i got it pretty quick and i thought i thought that was nice and then of course you've got the photo shop action angry birds flying in on the tail of the media are coming and then you

get the rush or bruce willis popular boy are going around the world dinosaurs this stuff kills my brother please don't laugh. in dollars years ago yes you never know you got to have a man you don't know what's going to hit you just know us kick in iraq right over there russia from the united states shield karate hero because you know you have to go ask where these friends are not well and then of course you put an hour of the rock down to the crash site as he does you know as i think about it what's nice excellent lots of photos of his well also we've got one as well a football fan was over in britain for a couple of this one football for a speculating over that much for three rushes in the. hole just a day before he said it could be read snow for a meteor or a meteor shower would come down and say what did he know that we didn't when i saw this i was thinking you know what i want to know when the red snow is. your place spread or at least it will let you get on with it thank you very much for coming to

see this and for those who get in the course if you want to find more about that huge news event in the wake of mattick pictures online r.t. dot com just a click away. check out some of the big stories now the volatile situation in bahrain has been exacerbated by the latest clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces this weekend schools were reportedly injured would rather police used tear gas and stun grenades against demonstrators throwing stones and petrol bombs violence broke out when those protesters tried to make their way to the funeral of a teenager who was allegedly. killed by security forces and this week during a rally marking two years of the anti-government uprising that incident in the term all that followed it is jeopardized now talks between the sunni dominated government and the mostly shiite opposition those talks have stalled activists say

there are no signs of either progress or pending reforms. we're looking at two years in which we've seen no reform we've seen nothing change i mean we started this uprising two years ago and on that day the first martyr of the uprising was killed and now two years later on the same day fourteen another teenager has been killed and this really shows and displayed the lack of reform continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets of bahrain it's good the dialogue has come back on the agenda and there is discussions happening but it seems that you know this latest latest escalation of the security against the people is going to possibly put dine in jeopardy within the ruling family i think of course there are those who simply want to please the international community to say look we're having this dialogue and there is not a great thing was continuing the violations on the street. libya's also marking the

second anniversary of its anti-government uprising putting security forces on high alert now later this hour that we take a look at why the ousting of woman gadhafi has brought no radical change for the better to the country we picked out a part of it further also the program to coming up the people of ecuador choosing the next president with currently the ruffled career expected to stay how to get a lot of comment on that for you after the break we explained why the result could prove pivotal for a whistleblower julian assange. i . technology innovation all the developments from around russia. the future covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. again borders closed international flights suspended security forces on high alert that is how libya is marking two years since the beginning of the uprising that

resulted in the bloody civil conflict foreign intervention and the toppling of the longtime leader moammar gadhafi is in the scenario explains why any celebrations than of being overshadowed by desperation with the current government and fears of more unrest. margaret coffey has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave the shoot at their feet is impossible to imagine a future for libya with good daffy still in power he must go. well gadhafi is long gone and we don't need to imagine but can take a close look the revolt which began in benghazi was followed by an eight month nato bombing campaign costing thousands of lives and left libya torn apart drowning in conflict and suffocating in stagnation still rich in oil libya economically is

a mess despite rampant unemployment and an overwhelming housing crisis huge construction projects are on hold and violence reigns if you look through before the. invasion by nato and nato supported militias. the country now you can clearly see that the country is suffering from the front problems that the not exist before the country's infrastructure has been destroyed and you have militias running. free on the streets attacking people killing people and doing whatever they want so yes a lot has changed but not for the better amnesty international describes tribalism post gadhafi as armed militias acting completely out of control hundreds of them across the country arresting people without warrant detaining them incommunicado

and torturing them all these points gadhafi was accused of by the rebels and the west now the watchdog says this is happening while the government is unwilling or unable to rein the militias in another problem is the south in december libya closed off its borders without niger chad and sudan citing a deterioration of security and declared the region a military zone well recently a video has emerged of representatives of the south libyan tribes declaring independence for the region the federation of south libya they claim the government has failed to secure the inside of the country and borders and this is a result of stalled economic activity and discontinue a. and other essential infrastructure projects that have been driven by international partners well it's still not clear how that news is being taken in tripoli but it can't bode well for any chance of stability and finally who is reaping the fruits of this revolution well some analysts say it's an economic

powerhouse putting lots of money into the region that the west just doesn't have while at the same time benefiting from their military efforts it's china the chinese have no boots on the ground nor abused their. military. so two years after the revolution for libya the only certainty is still gadhafi is gone we want you to check out our web site for more analysis of the consequences of the nato about regime change in libya and lot more too of course any time you want to just a click away r.t. dot com. ecuadorians heading to the polls in a presidential election with incumbent referred her to keep his job one man who's most probably rooting for him that of course is the world's most famous whistleblower julian a son she still holed up in ecuador an embassy in london after korea granted him asylum there let's get some live thoughts on this from political analyst joining us

on the line from one is there is a do another see tonight is expected to win this thing and beat the seven opposition challengers to one of those coveted stand that is being able to unite all of the opposition make the opposition more effective maybe or not. very unlike any way president or a focal career is marked to win in the first rounds and probably will be no second round if a second round or two arise that is always dangerous because even though the opposition parties might to test each other they often come together against a common enemy which in this case would be a second round against president correa but it seems that all surveys show that he will get between forty eight and sixty percent of the vote the very serious runs so it's a done deal that yami why is he so popular at home when he's not at all popular maybe with the u.s. for instance well that's probably the reason that the very same reason because public opinion throughout latin america has grown very weary with u.s. intervention and u.k. intervention throughout the continent which explains why countries like venezuela ecuador bolivia even argentina brazil are the crowd who are are having governments

that are keeping very much for of arm's length from the united states there are exceptions such as colombia for different reasons and surely which is a traditional hello of the united kingdom however i would i would say that the opposition hardly stands a chance of winning especially since most of them to a group or or lesser degree are pro-u.s. we have a banana magnate by the name of our normal. oh dear when we heard about that then i think we've lost the line to a don't want white thing and now you're back again yet adrian we're going to try and carry on our challenge last in line two second ago as he was saying there it's seen as a rational career and other latin american leaders seen as a kind of a counterbalance if you like to the u.s. of course think he is one of chavez now may be a diminishing role for him so maybe carette israel will be become more important. yes you will become an increasingly important expert the especially now that we are in a bit of a crisis regionally because of the illness of

a mystic child is in there as well or so this very strong popular movement trying to keep moving away from you know that states is gaining momentum but is having its problems anyway the fact that rough over a river will clearly win is a very good point of the positive point is however a truth of life that it would or is a relatively small country so that it does not have that much leverage but in the case of for example mr jr son no doubt that will continue there will mean a continued support for him and his extended stay at the editorial embassy in the united kingdom interesting you say this is a done deal but if it hadn't have been what would happen for june the sons then would he still be in the embassy in london or would they turf him out maybe oh if any of the opposition candidates especially mr love or or mr last if they were to win no doubt they will just expel him or give him or a relative if they would find a way to get rid of him and send him over to authorities so that we can definitely

not be good for but i think that that won't happen and i think that everything is on the way for mr korea being reelected so i think we're safe on that so it's for the time being thanks to thoughts on the program put in. there thank you. north korea is reportedly preparing for more atomic test despite the widespread international fear after detonated the third nuclear device tuesday described the move as an effort to shore up its national security and safeguard its sovereignty against what it called outrageous u.s. hostility and quote now the test prompted warnings from washington and its allies of more sanctions looming for the communist state to depend you said james corbett says the timing of the latest one couldn't have been worse. really i think going to fall into a lot of diplomatic pressure on china to use its leverage with north korea in this and i imagine that officials in beijing must have known that this this was coming

probably in the next few days and it certainly is it couldn't have happened at a worse time internationally speaking it's the lunar new year in china so basically the entire country is on holiday and in the u.s. there is no confirmed secretary of defense or central intelligence director so it's a very interesting time throw that throw into that the wild card of xi jinping we don't know much about him or how he's going to lead china and the fact that kim jong un is a relatively new leader as well you also have the new army government in japan and there's a lot of wildcards in this mix to see how this is going to shake out but i think on the question of china specifically if they have a lot of pressure that they can put on north korea this is r.t. international in a couple of minutes we'll look at some of the elements of european democracy.

some countries want oil but that's kid stuff who needs oil when you could secure the world's largest supply of trucker darrow so-to located exclusively in sweden and meeting sweden for absolutely no logical reason is a possible you say well supreme commander of the swedish armed forces general sphere guru and son must have watched red dawn too many times because he thinks the russians are a common general durance and declared that if invaded by russia sweden wouldn't be able to last a week against the onslaught therefore sweden must immediately join nato he said that currently it is not quite possible to invade sweden but due to the two thousand and eight war with georgia it is possible for russia to somehow push through established european borders bring their forces up to sweden gates putting the generals country in danger but guess what according to your own council of the european union georgia started the war so by that logic if the two thousand and one

with georgia is the example of the future then don't kill russian peacekeeping troops and you'll have nothing to worry about but general goran so also made the point that president putin is rearming the russian army hinting at a threat well being heavily armed to defend yourself is a bad scary thing then joining up with nato seems to be pretty hypocritical if the people of sweden want to join nato well that is their choice but they shouldn't be tricked into having their taxpayers pay for their sons to die in afghanistan based on totally bogus arguments that make no sense but that's just my opinion. please speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic in

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